Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2016
Concerns about false positives and censorship
Commentators raised concerns that legitimate websites could be blocked because of malicious advertising or compromised third-party content, and questioned whether centralized safety warnings could be used for censorship. The cited material did not document a confirmed censorship case by that point.
2012
Privacy and browser-equity criticism
Researchers criticized the possibility that earlier Safe Browsing implementations exposed complete URLs to Google and examined a Safari cookie associated with the service. A separate report argued that Chrome users could receive more effective Safe Browsing protection than Firefox and Safari users.